

' A Hunger Games vibe and a few Shades of Grey.'- Vanity Fair Rowling and William Gibson never teamed up to write.' - Wired ' The Bone Season is more like the novel that J.K. The Bone Season is our next Twilight.' - Marie Claire 'A rapid-fire wonder of a book, where clairvoyants and humans battle it out against scary monsters and super-creeps. ' A Hunger Games-esque debut.' - Irish Daily Mail 'The book invokes both the political tyranny of George Orwell and the bucolic mythmaking of J.R.R. 'A richly dramatic and unadulterated pleasure, filled with horrors, wonders and charm.' - Justina Robson, author of the Quantum Gravity series 'Samantha Shannon has a hugely inventive talent and an imagination with seven league boots. The Bone Season is a must read.' - Kami Garcia, co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series

'A dark and exquisitely rendered fantasy unlike anything out there. Leading the charge is Samantha Shannon.' - Harper's Bazaar 'A new breed of women authors are claiming fantasy for their own. 'Truly extraordinary and thrilling.' - Andy Serkis Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781408882528 Number of pages: 560 Weight: 386 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Read a Waterstones exclusive interview with Samantha Shannon where the author discusses world building, the challenges of fantasy love stories and what lies in store as the Bone Season series continues. Samantha Shannon was still a student when she published the first of her 7-bone cycle The Bone Season set in a gothic vision of future London where humans with a capacity to contact the undead are persecuted for their abilities. This was then followed in the series by The Mime Orderand The Song Rising This beautiful new edition includes the prequel novella, The Pale Dreamer Paige Mahoney, a powerful dreamwalker operating in the Seven Dials district of London, leads a double life, using her unnaturalness illegally while hiding her gift from her father, who works for the Scion regime. Clairvoyance in all its forms has been decreed a criminal offence, and those who practise it viciously punished.įorced underground, a clairvoyant underworld has developed, combating persecution and evading capture. For the past two hundred years the Scion government has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in London.
